Compare and Contrast the Uses of Perspective and Symbolism in James Joyce’s ‘Araby’ and D.H. Lawrence’s ‘the Horse Dealer’s Daughter’.

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The short story ‘Araby’ by Joyce and ‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’ by Lawrence both talk about the love story of the protagonists, but the uses of perspective and symbolism are different. The difference in the uses of perspective is that Joyce uses a first person point of view in ‘Araby’ to tell the story of an unnamed boy who had romantic feelings for an unnamed girl (Mangan’s sister) who lives next door and how is he being disappointed at the end of the story after he realized that the bazaar called Araby is not what he imagined, and the feeling for Mangan’s sister was just fantasy and superficial. By using the first person narrative, readers can understand how the narrator feels and thinks easily because the young boy is the narrator. The young boy’s infatuation with Mangan's sister is well presented to the reader by how he narrates his obsession with her using ”I” in “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door”, “I kept her brown figure always in my eye” etc. While in Lawrence’s ‘The Horse Dealer’s Daughter’, a third person point of view is being used to tell the strange love story of the horse dealer’s daughter Mabel committed suicide and a doctor called Fergusson save her and how they fall in love. There is a shift in point of view in this short story, omniscient point of view in the beginning, then from Mabel’s point of view to the first eye contact, then from Fergusson’s. (Mallett, 1997) This shifting of perspective can help the readers to better understand how all the characters think and feel especially the protagonists in the story, and better understand the mutual love between Mabel and Jack. We can see things from both Mabel and Jack’s view and know how they feel after they met each other. Joyce used a lot of symbols especially the religious ones in describing the background of the story. The North

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